PechaKucha Presentation

Art of Warning: Making of the Flood Drawings

"A few springs ago, I looked out over San Francisco Bay and I saw the city rising in the distance, above the fog, and I thought - I am going to draw water!"

In "Art of Warning: Making of the Flood Drawings" from PechaKucha Night Bryan Vol. 8, artist Mary Ciani presented “Flood”, her recent series – from drawings of living in harmony with first rivers to urgent ones warning of storm and final deluge. She looks, too, at visionary artists with images of the past, future, inventive assemblage, and spiritual connection. Even a prayer to the earth is included here. The drawings were collected into a book and art show.

Climate change requires cultural transformation and art is an important catalyst for social-cultural change. Ally Lankester's talk provides an overview of climate change art with a focus on Townsville projects.

Pivotal is the Cambridge-based collectives of artists promoting positive change, particulary in the arena of climate change. Watch James Murray-White as highlighted examples of some of the creative projects the group has initiated across the City.

Samuel Lang Budin is a social documentary photographer living in Brooklyn and working primarily in the depressive realist mode. He makes 35mm and medium format slide shows about climate change anxiety, aging and death, naked people in their own homes, the personal discomforts of travel, and the encroaching sea. Just you wait!

One place. Many ways there. My happy place when it feels like life is living me.

Shari Staten is a writer, writing worktop facilitator, Telecommunications Representative and aspiring web developer. Shari moved to Portland OR from Michigan, was raised in both the Mid-West and Connecticut, is a University of Hartford alumna and a Multiple Sclerosis patient. She is also a current Executive Board Member of Write Around Portland, a local nonprofit.